Ep 170 | Why Oscar Winner Richard Dreyfuss Is Grateful Glenn 'Outed' Him | Richard Dreyfuss | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Even as an Oscar-winning A-list actor, Richard Dreyfuss never really fit in with the Hollywood crowd. “There are people who now think that opposing views are un-American,” he tells Glenn. Today, that toxic belief has been spread across the country, and he couldn’t stay silent. Having grown up communist, he’s seen this before, and he believes the root issue is simple: Our schools no longer teach civics. To fight back, he founded the Dreyfuss Civics Initiative and wrote his new book, “One Thought Scares Me.” His hope is to save America by encouraging conversations between people with opposing views. He lives by this. In his own words, he’s a “Lib-o-Conserve-o-Rad-o-Middle of the Road-o,” and has been for years. And of course, he’s gathered plenty of stories over those years: Activism, drugs, James Dean, the 1960s, the consequences of celebrity feuds, the power of a good teacher … oh, and a story about how his great-grand-aunt may have assassinated a Russian emperor. SPONSORS: BetterSpectacles are offering an introductory 61% off of their progressive eyewear plus free handcrafted Rodenstock frames. Go to https://BetterSpectacles.com/BECK now to schedule a Tele-Optical appointment. You don’t even have to leave the comfort of your home. When you buy Grip6 Socks, you’re supporting the American ranchers, who raise specialty-bred sheep that produce modern wool, you’re putting your trust and hard-earned money in a company that does it right, making American-made products with American labor. Go to https://grip6.com/BECK You could be a victim of home title fraud and not even know it. To protect yourself and verify your home’s title is still in your name, visit https://HomeTitleLock.com, and enter promo code “RADIO” to get your free home title report. Imagine what it would be like if you could just flip a switch and make every odor that gets into your home go away in just a few seconds. Well, you can, with the Eden Pure Thunderstorm Air Purifier. Go to http://edenpuredeals.com/ and use the discount code “GLENN50” to get an additional $50 off the GEN40’s sale price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's guest has been a violent bank robber, a shark fighting marine biologist,
0:06.5	a passionate composer, an uptight psychiatrist, a notorious scam artist, a love-learn detective,
0:13.4	a wizard named Oz, and a suicidal architect trapped on a sinking ocean liner.
0:20.7	He has encountered aliens and faced 3D piranhas. He has held the office of Republican Senator,
0:26.9	a general White House chief of staff and vice president who ran the show. All of these, as characters,
0:33.1	of course, but he brought each of them to life. As a kid, my guest today wanted to be the greatest
0:40.1	actor in the world and it became an obsession. He won an Oscar when he was 29 for the goodbye girl.
0:48.4	At the time he was the youngest actor to win a title he held for 25 years until Adrian Brody
0:55.6	snatched it. He's worked with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, you name it.
1:01.5	He was in American graffiti. Along the way he got into some high-profile feuds, Bill Murray,
1:08.6	through a glass ash tray at his face. But today he is not here to talk about his academy
1:15.1	awarders, celebrity feuds, although I do have to ask him a few questions, or his iconic roles in
1:21.4	Mr. Holland's Opus and Jaws. He was never a Hollywood insider. He's here to sound the alarm to
1:28.4	protect the Constitution, to stir the healthy descent, to protect the lone voice. He told me right
1:36.9	before the podcast that I was the one who outed him in Hollywood. When I apologized, I didn't
1:44.4	realize that he said, no, this is one of the best things that's happened to me. He is a man committed
1:51.7	to nothing less than saving America. It has been his mission for the past few decades and it is
1:57.9	a subject of his new book called One Thought Scares Me. He wants us all to ask ourselves, when American
2:06.4	fails, what then? Please welcome on today's podcast, Richard Drifus. Everything in my life that
2:16.6	sucks has progressive in the name. Whatever is progressive? Not good. Progressive glasses are good,
2:25.8	but sometimes, I mean, I don't know if you have progressive glasses, but if you do, are you happy
2:30.4	with them? I am happy with these. These are rodent stock glasses from Better Spectacles Now.
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